Enhancing Photos with Perfectly Clear

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1/12/2016

Learn how to enhance your images with Perfectly Clear. This plugin for Photoshop and Lightroom analyzes photos and makes corrections by combining image analysis and customized user settings. In this course, Rich Harrington shows how to enhance photos and fix common problems for a wide range of images using Perfectly Clear's presets and manual adjustment tools. Start watching to learn how to correct exposure, enhance color, sharpen details, retouch portraits, and develop raw files. Plus, get an inside look at the Lucid standalone apps, which harness the power of Perfectly Clear's one-click image adjustments for iOS devices and Windows and Mac computers.

Topics include:

Installing Perfectly Clear

Applying Perfectly Clear in Photoshop and Lightroom

Choosing presets

Refining adjustments manually

Controlling exposure

Restoring and removing color

Sharpening images

Removing noise

Retouching skin, eyes, and other features

Working with raw files

Using the Lucid desktop and mobile apps

Skill Level Intermediate

3h 16m

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41,636

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- Hi, my name's Rich Harrington,and today we're going to be taking a lookat a product called Perfectly Clear.It's available in a few different forms,from a plugin for Photoshop and Lightroom,to a standalone application, as well assomething you could run on a phone or tablet.Now the core technology is all the same.What's really at play here is a groupof software tools that are fairly automated.You see Perfectly Clear began its lifeas software that is used in photo labs.Many photos, in fact about 30 million photosa day are printed using the software at allsorts of different professional labs.

So if you submit your photos to an online lab for printing,chances are it's actually gone through this software.Well now the software is available to the end consumer,so if you wanna do your own prints,or your going directly to sharing online,or you just wanna get things under controlbefore you print or send it off to printyou can actually use the same technology now.The way that it works is essentiallyan auto-image analysis.It's a pretty straightforward process.When you run the plugin or load an imageinto the app or standalone software,it'll simply analyze the image, then, by choosinga series of presets, you can apply a recipe that's gonnabe well suited to a particular image problem.

Now like all software, there tends to be controls,so if you need to refine things, you'll find sliders,and other things that are quite usefulto dial in exactly the image that you want.But the true magic is allowing the tool to do itsauto-analysis and make the recommended fixes.In fact this can dramatically speed up the workflow.One potential use of this is to use itto batch process photos say from a portrait shoot,or an interior shoot or a product shoot,where you've got similar images.This will allow you to quickly go through and auto-fixall of those and then send a first copyover to a client for review.

So whether you're a professional looking tospeed up your workflow or an amateur just lookingto save time or do less work inside of an image editing app,Perfectly Clear can be quite useful.So today we're gonna explore all of the differentapplications from running inside of Adobe softwareto using as a standalone app to putting it on your phone.And you'll see how you can use the same controlsand underlying technologyto quickly improve just about any image.